The 45.1% reduction for the general plastics tray and 36.7% reduction for the breast reconstruction tray resulted in a decrease of 81,696 instrument cycles and 383.5 hours of sterile processing labor per year.
These outcomes provide a cost avoidance on instrument re-purchase of $163,800 and reduction in annual sterile processing expense of $69,441 – for these two instrument tray types alone!
A data-driven process utilizing empiric instrument usage data collected intraoperatively can have profound impacts, particularly when extrapolated to the most commonly used instrument trays across all service lines at a hospital.
OpFlow enables this transformational change by providing a solution and process to generate these significant cost savings, efficiency gains, and quality of care improvement for a hospital’s surgical services.
